Sunday, September 22, 2013

Chinese-Churches-Run for your wife

On Saturday night myself and her indoors decided to
have a Chinese at the George at Teynham, we have used the place before and is
most probably the best Chinese Restaurant in the area. £25 a head I thought was
good as we had 5 courses but what surprised me was that we were the only ones
in the restaurant. On our return we
watched a film, I was hoping for a bit of hanky panky but then realised there
was no Z in the month. The film we watched was called Run for Your Wife – reviews from the Guardian that
paper which sells about 100 copies a week and where the BBC get all its news
from, gave it a right slating saying:

“The trouser-dropping 80s stage farce finally hits the
big screen with Danny Dyer, to kill off any remaining British self-respect”

Well I thoroughly enjoyed it was in the same vein as a
Brian Rix Farce (for those who can remember him) and was typical English Slap,
stick humour and like the famous Tommy Cooper/Eric Sykes comedy film The Plank
it had loads of popular British Actors in cameo roles. Good old fashioned laugh
a minute. Of Guardian readers would not like it because there was no hidden
meaning where they could talk over a Dinner Party, well worth a watch.

On Sunday popped into Headcorn lovely small
Town/Village, there is a pleasant little café/curio shop there where often have
coffee, 2 coffees and two portion of white bait £20.50p! You can not go
anywhere with out spending twenty notes.

All Saints Hollingbourne Kent

Hollingbourne is a
village with a population of around 900 souls and nestles under the North
Downs some five miles to the east of Maidstone. The village has over one
hundred listed buildings and two conservation areas and is surrounded by
several sites of special scientific interest. There are spectacular views
across the village and Kent towards the South Downs from the top of Hollingbourne
Hill.

The church was begun in
the 14th century and was altered and extended in the 15th century, in 1638,
1869 and 1903. The church is constructed of flint and ashlar stone work and has
plain tiled roofs. It was restored in 1876 by George Gilbert
Scott, Jr. and is a Grade I listed building.[1]

St Nicholas Church Leeds Kent

This is different to a lot of the other churches I have featured as it has a timber spire

Construction
of the church began in the 11th century; it is built of a mix of local ragstone and tufa with a roof covered in plain clay
tiles. The large square tower on the west end is of two levels with broad buttresses and quoined
corners of tufa. The north and south sides of the tower have windows with
semi-circular heads and the west side has two lancet windows and a
pointed arched door. The roof level has a battlementedparapet with a timber
spire built in 1963 in the style of an earlier 15th century spire.[1] The church clock was built in the 1730s and the tower
contains a ring of bells
consisting of ten bells; nine dating from the 1750s with the tenor bell cast in
1617.[2]

The main body of the
church is constructed of ragstone with tufa inclusions and has clay-tiled roofs